Numbers of threatened turtle doves in western Europe have rapidly recovered after a hunting ban was introduced in 2021, conservationists said. Numbers in the region increased by 40% to 610,000 ...

BirdLife has claimed the illegal hunting of Turtle-doves has been rife over the past days, despite the spring hunting season for the species not yet opening. “Since the start of BirdLife Malta’s ...

Illegal hunting of turtle-dove has been recorded daily in recent days, despite the official spring hunting season for this species not being open yet, BirdLife said on Monday. It said that on Friday a ...

The spring hunting season for turtle dove has not yet started yet poachers have already caught more than the 1,500 national quota allowed by law, bird activists have claimed. Birdlife Malta said all ...

Numbers of threatened turtle doves in western Europe increased by a quarter in just two years of a hunting moratorium, conservationists said. The birds, which migrate from Africa each year to breed in ...